Welcome to my PhD blog
Worried you're doing your PhD all wrong and someone's about to find out? You're in the right place. 😂
In this blog, I cover all the stuff you might need help with. Like writing your literature review, doing your qualitative data analysis, developing your discussion chapter, and trying not to go completely bonkerpants in the process.
I'll help you work out HOW to do all those things everyone keeps telling you to do.
Expect practical PhD advice, based on the unspoken truth that nobody's PhD is nearly as neat as their finished thesis makes it look.
Have a nosey at the latest posts below, or browse by topic to find what you need.
Qualitative Methods | Literature Review | Methodology | Planning and Organisation | Writing Up | Supervision | PhD Mindset | Paradigms, Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks |
AI and PhD Research
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Is AI making you a less independent PhD researcher?
PhD researchers - is using AI making you a less independent researcher?
Recently, I've been asking PhD researchers to share their AI experiences, questions and concerns* with me recently and I've quickly come to realise that this goes far beyond the whole "To use AI, or not to use AI?" debate.
Is AI making PhD researchers doubt themselves? Should you use AI in your PhD?
I'm starting to worry that AI is making some PhD researchers LESS confident in their own thinking.
Last week, I had a chat with a PhD researcher that really concerned me and I want to put my take on this “out there”. The PhD researcher in question is okay with me sharing this anonymously BTW so I’m not betraying any confidences and they read and approved this before I posted it.
I’m guessing you’re here because you’ve chosen to do a qualitative study for your PhD but things have started to feel a bit… slippery. You like how qualitative approaches value people’s lived experiences and you’re researching something you genuinely care about so that’s why you felt drawn to it. However, recently you seem to have unlocked a whole new level of confusing and it’s all gone a bit Alice in Wonderland.